Bengaluru Tech Summit | Life is all about breaking boundaries, says DyCM
The Hindu
Breaking boundaries creates new life, new innovations, and new history. Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar spoke at the opening session of The BENGALURU TECH SUMMIT 2023, noting it was all about breaking boundaries. The event has broken boundaries since 1998, becoming one of the key tech summits in the world.
Breaking boundaries creates new life, new innovations, and new history. There would be no life if the chicks didn’t break the shells. There would be no life if the babies didn’t break the water in. There would be no women in our workforce today if they hadn’t broken the glass ceiling. It is all about breaking boundaries, said Karnataka Deputy CM, DK Shivakumar, while speaking at the opening session of The BENGALURU TECH SUMMIT 2023 in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
He said the theme of this year’s tech exposition ’Breaking Boundaries’ was a very relevant one as life was all about breaking boundaries.
He said this event has been breaking boundaries since 1998. It was the first IT expo in the country and it quickly became the largest tech summit in Asia. “Today, it is one of the key tech summits in the world. I am glad to hear that Bengaluru Tech Summit 2023 has broken new boundaries by becoming the largest edition in the last 26 years,” he noted.
He said in this context, it was also important to remember people and factors who broke the boundaries to make this possible.
“I still fondly remember the days of BangaloreIT.com when I was the Urban Development Minister from 1999 to 2004. Those were the important formative years of this event. And Bengaluru Tech Summit owes a lot to those five years,” he said.
Recalling that Karnataka was the first State to formulate an IT policy in 1997, Mr. Shivakumar said, S M Krishna government was the first one to set up the IT Department in the State. These initiatives were complemented by the efforts of the Government of India. It was the P V Narasimha Rao government which set up the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in 1991, which kick started the IT revolution in a structured way, he added.
In addition, many bureaucrats and politicians have worked hard to build the IT department in their formative years. If the governments had not broken those boundaries of red tape and myopia to create a new vision, Bengaluru would not be Bengaluru today, he stated.
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